quatre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quatre
Borrowed into English from French around 1540–50
Example Sentences
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From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2019
Conversations With Friends asks whether it is possible to sustain authentic connections to people in the presence of flawed, overarching structures: capitalism, patriarchy, a devilish ménage à quatre.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017
You see the same mad inventiveness in the show's climax, which consists of the famous pas de quatre from Swan Lake and is dazzlingly executed while threatening to turn into a life-endangering marathon.
From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2012
Among the seven other principals featured, it was especially good to see the upper-body freedom with which, in the “ballroom” pas de quatre, Tiler Peck turned her choreography into something personal.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2011
The more usual play is, for a hit, to play two to the cinque point in the player's own, and the other two to the quatre point in the adversary's table.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
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